Good lord, a natural disaster at this time could have been cruel.
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SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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Well, I think it's more that we've got used to eating very simply here, because there's just not the choice that there is in the UK - particularly with sweet things. The only thing we'd struggle without is our breadmaker, because I make a fresh loaf every day. Toast for breakfast, sandwich and yoghurt for dinner, usually pasta and veg for tea.
Im quite glad he isn't too. Managing this situation isn't in his or current Labours locker.
Until there are roadblocks stopping you moving between towns, which there will be soon enough, nobody is going to do that through choice.
The UK has this weird attitude, particularly amongst the older generation, that they have to show they know better. I hear a lot from my parent's friends that they think it's all an overreaction by youth who have never seen tough times, we've seen worse, we survived the war after all (despite the fact it was their parents that did that and most of them have never even seen a gun).
Somewhere in Ireland, @Sweet Square was just awoken by this post.
You have a pasta dish after your dinner?
There'll is the initial surge of panic buying but I think people will realise the shops still get re-stocked and things will calm down a bit.WTF is the military going to do, apart from cause more fear and panic
They can't exactly say just 1 pack of pasta lad or i'll shoot you?
The shops just need to be stronger and set limitations. Eventually this'll die down anyway, how many people can stock up much more?
The shops over here in Ireland have also introduced limits on some goods so you can't walk out with 65 boxes of jax roll you'll never need.
EDIT: They've already begun introducing limits in the UK too:
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/n...ce-purchase-number-limits-on-some-items---fo/
Are you having a pop at the northern, working class?
It's a northern (English) thing - we used to have breakfast, dinner and tea. Not breakfast, lunch, dinner
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I very much doubt the military will be used for anything other than support initially. I also doubt they will be given any powers of arrest unless it is when assisting a constable. The implications of doing so would be too far reaching and unnecessary. Their role will be to assist front line staff, not take over.
Still not working from home, even with all the tools to do so easily. It's got really quiet expecially with the Oil price plummeting, it seems mental that we are still fully staffed in the office.
It seems that it's going to take a number of people actually getting sick before we do something.
It seems that it's going to take a number of people actually getting sick before we do something.
Are people really calling lunch "dinner"? fecking hell, what a language.It's a northern (English) thing - we used to have breakfast, dinner and tea. Not breakfast, lunch, dinner
Yes, but at least they prevented someone else from having it.
Love the pasta discussion. The thread needed it.
I'm afraid so. They are slowly becoming cultured up there. Give it another 100 years.
Well I for one am shocked
We used to have school dinner ladies as well, even made TV shows about them...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinnerladies_(TV_series)
Not an expert, but I was wondering if it's just that checking people off as recovered is less of a priority. I think at one point the process for being officially recovered required 3 negative tests - has that changed? Can't imagine Italian doctors are particularly fussed about carrying out a third test on someone that's had no symptoms for a few days.
I dropped my girlfriend to work this morning and thought I'd nip into Sainsbury's as it was nice and early (8am) and I assumed they'd have stocked overnight and we've had 3 failed shopping trips in the evenings this week.
It was absolutely packed. Busier than I have seen it on any Saturday morning and the shelves were already empty. Some really weird rules though. The woman in front of me had 5 frozen bags of veg: 1 chips, 1 carrots, 1 green beans, 1 peas and 1 broccoli/cauli mix and the lady told her she had to put two of them back. Absolutely baffling. If you're buying fresh vegetables are you only allowed 3 different types of vegetables? If you get loose potatoes are you only allowed 3 potatoes? Is two potatoes and two carrots too many?
It was absolutely packed. Busier than I have seen it on any Saturday morning and the shelves were already empty. Some really weird rules though. The woman in front of me had 5 frozen bags of veg: 1 chips, 1 carrots, 1 green beans, 1 peas and 1 broccoli/cauli mix and the lady told her she had to put two of them back. Absolutely baffling. If you're buying fresh vegetables are you only allowed 3 different types of vegetables? If you get loose potatoes are you only allowed 3 potatoes? Is two potatoes and two carrots too many?
We had cracking school dinner ladies. Basically roast dinner most days.
Special leave with pay is only for a mater of days.
Its the northern culture, show some repsect heathen.
What we really need to know is how they made their pasta.
Wait until you hear about supper.
You know I think that may have been the day of the week I dreaded. I'm having flashbacks to ravioli. Pretty sure they were canned.
I don't think we have more meal timeslots on any given day to fit that in, I'm afraid.
Us northerners have hobbit ancestry it seems.
Do northerners have brunch or linner?
Brunch? Is that like an egg barm or something?
After seeing how the (british) public have reacted to this virus I am now against governments disclosing an alien invasion or an incoming meteorite.
Basically in my place of work, if you've got someone at home who is high risk like I have, my choice is statutory sick leave, unpaid leave, annual leave or quit. I work in hospitals across Northern Ireland.
I would imagine most places would be the same.
I normally have 12 weeks full sick pay, but if I where to take off it wouldn't be because I'm sick
I would imagine most places would be the same.
I normally have 12 weeks full sick pay, but if I where to take off it wouldn't be because I'm sick
If you want, but you've got to eat something in that awkward period between 10:30 and 12
Eggs Benedict would be brunch for me.
Absolutely, let's say it right for once.
Cases in Mauritius @Jippy
February 29 actually.
Imagine the run on loo roll that would create.
What supermarkets should do is make up hampers of food & basics for different sizes of families and sell them instead of individual items for now. That will keep it fair